The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-10-11

publishing communications written
for the purpose of twisting every
item of such Hawaiian intelligence
from abroad into grounds of attack
upon those who we're in any way
prominent in bringing about the
great constitutional reform, that had
to be effected by revolution or await
ed in vain till doomsday. The state
of affairs in Hawaii to-day is not as
represented in the letters and ex
tracts daily appearing in the Bulletin,
as that paper can easily ascertain by
investigation. There is no Govern
ment press censorship, and informa-
ton is freely furnished the press
which under the old order it would
have been considered blank treason
to ask for. Why. the clerks of
the Interior Department under the
late Government actually refused
reporter, by instructions from head
quarters, the particulars of a public
land sale. and in every Department ex-
cepting that of the Acknowledgement
some of the understrappers re-
piled to respectful enquiries in
such a supercilious fashion, as
if they ran the whole machine,
that representatives of the press out
of self-respect troubled them as little
as possible
The fact of the matter is that the
malcontents who find ready admis
sion for their productions, without
word of editorial comment, in the
Bulletin, have been trading all this
time on the disinclination of the
friends of reform to retaliate, when
retaliation involved comparison of the
new order with the old which would
necessitate hitting persons who are
down. There is a point, however,
when patience ceases to be virtue,
and that point seems to be fully
reached. Decent people must be now
sick and tired of the dreary policy of
detraction, defamation and misrepre-
sentation of the new regime. The
assumed innocence of our con
temporary, in asking if our
reference to mud throwing
was aimed at one small piece Of de-
traction, is too good Its gratuitous
assertion, that the GAZETTE thinks
"all Investigations into the doings of
the present Government" is mud
throwing" is rather COOL The Bul-
Jetin would do itself as well as the
Government some justice if it did a
little investigating, so that when it
publishes defamatory statements re-
garding persons connected with the
new order of things, it may be in a
position either to confirm or deny
them From time to time the GA
zETTE will do its part in acquainting
the public with what the Government
is doing, and will not hesitate to
bestow criticism where necessary.
At the same time, in the full belief
that the country has not changed its
mind since the twelfth of September,
we are not going to let the clique of
malcontents send false views of the
state of affairs abroad without chal-
lenge. The session of the Legisla-
ture is so nigh that the general CON
duct Of the administration, as well as
any particular acts thereof, may,
with reasonable safety, be left to
the review of the elected representa-
Jives of the people. In conclusion,
it may be said, the foregoing remarks
are not merely in reply to our even
ing contemporary of yesterday, but
to the burden of its political contents
for many weeks past 1t is proper to
call attention, further, to the fact that
the columns of that paper are now be
ing used to boom annexation to the
United States, the latest fad of the
malcontents, who, because they can
not rule, are bent on running the ex-
listing institutions of the country,
with which all nationalities living
here are reasonably satisfied, being
content to let well enough alone.